“I think of Wendy throughout each and every day and night,” Wendy’s sister, Patti Parisien said. “I don’t think I will ever adjust to not being able to talk with her about all of life’s ups and downs. She was an amazing sister, wife, mother and grandmother. She was taken from us much too soon.”

More than 600 attended Boudreau’s funeral last year at Thornton Academy.

Boudreau went to school at Thornton and met her husband there. She worked at the school and also sent her children there. Friends said family came first for Boudreau, but Thornton Academy was a close second.

Donations in Boudreau’s name continue to be made to a scholarship fund at the school, Parisien said.

She also said her sister was one of a kind.

“When the sky is is so blue and there are a few puffy white clouds, please think of Wendy, the kindest, most gentle person you could ever know,” Parisien said.